Intrusions of magma into the crust help accommodate the divergence between tectonic plates. A magnetotelluric survey of the crust and mantle beneath Afar, Ethiopia, has identified enough magma to accommodate plate separation there for about 50,000 years.
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Buck, W. Magma for 50,000 years. Nature Geosci 6, 811–812 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1951
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